Daines amendment tax bill child credit

GOP Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, departs a meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Sept 14, 2023.

The bill also includes some revived tax cuts for businesses, like research and development deductions. Those provisions seemed to make it more palatable to congressional Republicans, some of whom appeared reluctant to back the expansion of the Child Tax Credit and give the Biden administration what it would see as a major win in an election year.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, unveiled the agreement earlier this month, touting the "common sense, bipartisan, bicameral tax framework that promotes the financial security of working families, boosts growth and American competitiveness, and strengthens communities and Main Street businesses." "American families will benefit from this bipartisan agreement that provides greater tax relief, strengthens Main Street businesses, boosts our competitiveness with China, and creates jobs," Smith said in a statement. The House moved to vote on the legislation under a procedure known as a suspension of the rules on Wednesday, opting to fast-track the bill with a floor vote that requires the backing of two-thirds of the chamber. The maneuver avoids a procedural vote that has proved troublesome in recent months. House conservatives have on multiple occasions in recent months blocked a vote to approve the rule for a bill, which is typically needed before the full chamber can vote. The move has made the GOP House leadership's job of steering legislation through the chamber increasingly difficult, enabling a small group of detractors to effectively shut down the floor at their discretion.

On Tuesday, a group of moderate New York Republicans employed the tactic, blocking a rule vote in protest of the tax bill lacking state and local tax deductions. But the impasse seemed to quickly dissipate after the group met with Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson said he supported the legislation in a statement ahead of the vote on Wednesday. "The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is important bipartisan legislation to revive conservative pro-growth tax reform. Crucially, the bill also ends a wasteful COVID-era program, saving taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. Chairman Smith deserves great credit for bringing this bipartisan bill through committee with a strong vote of confidence, and for marking up related bills under regular order earlier in this Congress," he said. "This bottom-up process is a good example of how Congress is supposed to make law."

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